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Dustin Pearson
@dustinkpearson.bsky.social
Author of A Season in Hell with Rimbaud, Millennial Roost, and A Family Is a House. Asst. Prof. @Utoledo. Indie movie poet. SC native. OhioMichigan based.
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The Third Birthday
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JUST RELEASED! ✨
Now Flourish Northern Cardinal: Selected Poems 2005–2025 by Darren C. Demaree gathers two decades of extraordinary work from one of today’s most prolific Ohioan poets.

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November 13, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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"They rush past the periphery / in sunlight. What was that, / a friend asks, as if briefly / my torso had begun to slip / from my legs..."

From "A Scurry" by ASU English alum @dustinkpearson.bsky.social

Read the poem in Waxwing: ow.ly/5fhj50XpBUJ #ASUHumanities
November 13, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Jumpin' jubilation! I just got my cream city review, with the poem "On a Planet of Gas and Dust and Smoky Mountains, Bird Calls" Steve Castro, Dustin Pearson, & I wrote together. Thank you to all at CCR for the beautiful things that you do!
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October 17, 2025 at 7:13 PM
The University of Toledo is hiring an Assistant Lecturer to teach in the Composition Program. This position has a start date of Fall 2026. Please see this link for the complete job listing, which I learned was posted yesterday: careers.utoledo.edu/cw/en-us/job...
Assistant Lecturer, Composition
The University of Toledo Department of English invites applications for an instructional position in the Composition Program at the rank of Assistant Lecturer to begin in Fall 2026. The position is a ...
careers.utoledo.edu
October 16, 2025 at 4:52 PM
I have two poems in the new Waxwing. I so much love the art by Dora Ilce. I've included screens of one poem and of the issue art, but here's a link to the full issue: waxwingmag.org/index.php#top
October 15, 2025 at 5:37 PM
The magic of oven cooking in conjunction with food ya hafta flip at half time. Ya grab the oven mitt and reach in to get the food and that wave of heat feels like it singes all the hair off yr arm but it remains there if ya have it in the first place and that's not even the half of what can happen.
October 9, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Had it in my mind to get a dirty chai in a coffee shop yesterday. It rung up as $8.50. Decided to get some dinner at home instead.
September 24, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Friends!! Today I WEAR A TOP HAT WHEN I GO INTO THE FOREST, a micro e-chapbook of collaborative prose poetry I wrote with Dustin Nightingale (@dustinnightingale.bsky.social ) has been released by Ghost City Press!!! It's free or pay whatever you want!
HUGE thanks to @ghostcitypress.bsky.social
August 14, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Two poems in Denver Quarterly
July 8, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Love that finally replaced all the lightbulbs in the fixture brightness and feeling.
June 22, 2025 at 12:42 AM
The Third Birthday
May 11, 2025 at 2:40 AM
My glasses are some of the best company I can keep. My glasses get on my last fkn nerve.
April 25, 2025 at 3:10 PM
A new poem in the latest issue of Sixth Finch. Here’s a link to the entire issue: sixthfinch.com
April 17, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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So happy seeing the Hell poems get some shine here.
electricliterature.com/9-poetry-col...
9 Poetry Collections That Build Immersive Narrative Worlds - Electric Literature
These poets build entire worlds inside their pages
electricliterature.com
January 15, 2025 at 8:00 PM
So happy seeing the Hell poems get some shine here.
electricliterature.com/9-poetry-col...
9 Poetry Collections That Build Immersive Narrative Worlds - Electric Literature
These poets build entire worlds inside their pages
electricliterature.com
January 15, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I asked my students to tell me one of their staple foods. This eventually became them telling me one of their favorite foods. One student said "dippy eggs." I said: What's that?!? 💀
January 14, 2025 at 1:55 AM
It’s officially socially acceptable to cry for the rest of the year.
December 31, 2024 at 8:31 PM
It's almost declaration season
December 25, 2024 at 3:24 AM
Was playing Fortnite the other day with folk and said: I really look forward to the supermarket scenes and when folk eat cans of beans in post apocalyptic movies.
December 23, 2024 at 4:44 AM
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Wow! Laurel Review accepted 3 of the collaborative poems Dustin Pearson, Steve Castro, and I wrote: "We End and the World Begins, Where?" "A Change of Occupation" and "Three Deaths near a Body of Water." HUGE thank you to Editor John Gallaher!
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December 21, 2024 at 6:09 PM
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The Inflectionist Review just published 2 collaborative prose poems Steve Castro, Dustin Pearson, and I wrote together. This is one of them. Please visit inflectionismDOTcom to read the other one! Huge thanks to Editors Anatoly Molotkov & John Sibley Williams!
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December 20, 2024 at 5:50 PM
Even as grown as I am, I still sleep like a baby in comparison at my mother's house.
December 19, 2024 at 9:28 PM
Two new poems written with Christopher Citro and Steve Castro in The Inflectionist Review this afternoon.
www.inflectionism.com/19-steve-cas...
The Inflectionist Review - Steve Castro, Christopher Citro & Dustin Pearson, Forgotten Village
www.inflectionism.com
December 19, 2024 at 5:30 PM